If a flagrant impossibility is not quite so outrageous as a crescent sun, if it's on its own rather than being one part of a huge shitheap of impossibilities, or if it's simply such a cool idea we want it to be feasible, it seems to me we can quite often just shunt the "this could not happen" subjunctivity to the back of our minds and read the work as SF regardless.

Playing Ohio State-the Big Ten's last hope for a moment of redemption in a shitheap of a bowl season for them-and having to pull out a last second Colt McCoy touchdown drive out of their well-polished asses for the win over a nine point underdog is dodgy enough.